You can thank our old friend Halladay’s Biceps for bringing this to our attention. But Matt Stairs — a guy I think everyone loves unconditionally because my God what’s not to love — is up for a Phillies TV gig. The report from Ryan Lawrence:

Stairs, a member of the 2008 world champion Phillies, will interview with Comcast SportsNet for the vacant TV broadcasting job, according to an MLB.com report.

He has done some TV work before and his time on camera as a player suggests a lot of personality. But Matt, what other qualifications do you have?

I don’t comment much, but I’ve been here for a while and as vociferously as I argued with Biceps on one of the last threads he commented on (I faintly recall it had something to deal with differences of culture or something like that) I kinda miss the guy; in the “that uncle at Thanksgiving” sort of way.

Maybe also allow him on during the All-Star break, so that there may be actual baseball that happened recently to discuss as a kind of mid-season “report” and then also at Easter for “spring training”.

RoyHobbs39 - Jan 31, 2014 at 10:13 AM

“You can thank our old frind Halladay’s Biceps for brining this to our attention.”

I see what you did there Craig. You left out the “e” in frind, the “g” in bringing and the “t” in bicepts.

A very good player during his time in Mexican Pacific winter League with Mayos de Navojoa (a team that two days ago lost the final of this season)… like John Kruk he’s always been regarded as a model player who adapted very well to the all-in type of baseball played in winter ball in México and the caribbean, a different approach to the more-relaxed-because-I-won’t-risk-my-check type of baseball in the MLB (Robinson Canó is a great example of that: hustles playing for the Dominican Republic, with the Yankees had great numbers but he wouldn’t hustle… maybe he will hustle like he did in winter ball now that he has a guaranteed $200+ millions).

Cano doesn’t fail to hustle because he is protecting his body, he is just lazy and doesn’t give a crap. I think he made the move to Seattle not just for the money, but also because he was expected to be the team leader after Jeter retired. He clearly wasn’t up to the extra-curricular activity that was going to take.